When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it…

Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria,…

— Najibullah Quraishi

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

— Dervla Murphy

If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished,…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

— Salman Rushdie

No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we…

— Gary Goetzman

The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if…

— Brad Thor

The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.”

— Khaled Hosseini

A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs,…

— Hilary Mantel

Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that…

— Tony Blair

“In Our Villages - You killed thousands by thousands, after each thousand, You are killing another one thousand.”

— Abed Rahmani

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late…

— Khaled Hosseini

“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as…

— Jake Wood

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In…

— William T. Vollmann